if Beethoven built the Church, along with Goethe maybe, of Romanticism, and be assured Romanticism is an ideology, a moral outlook, a motivational perspective, much like the economy is nowadays, supplanting any more humanistic imperatives, Brahmsput up one of its Cathedrals, just listen, the First PianoConcerto is a monument, as mighty as the Cologne Cathedral musically,right next to Bonn, incidentally, Brahms‘ birthplace

with the disintegration of the supremacy of the Catholic deity at the onset of the ProtestantReformation, Luther, Calvin, Henry Vlll and all that, bolsteredby new discoveries in scientificspeculation, that the earth wasn’t flat, for instance, that it revolved around the sun rather than the other way around, contradictory, though convincing, voices began to abound, excite question

in the 18th Century, the Age ofReason, the Christian Deity fell,never effectively to be put back together again, see for Its final sundering, Nietzsche

in France, after the Revolution, the Church was officially removed from political consideration, countermanding its centuriesof morally heinous depredations, the United States had already at its own Revolutionseparated it from State

Romanticism was an answer to a world wherein there might not be a God, a world with, however, a spiritual dimension, to respond to the clockwork universe envisioned by the earlier epoch,the Enlightenment, a world where everything could be categorized,analyzed, predicted

Romanticism called for the inclusion of inspiration in the mix,there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy,as Shakespeare would, for instance, have it – “Hamlet”,1.5.167-8poets became prophets thereby, if they could manage it, very oracles, the world was blessed with, at that very moment, Beethoven, far outstripping the likes of, later, for example, BillyGraham, or other such, howevergalvanizing, proselytizers, whose messages would’ve been too, to my mind, literal